Windows Server Active Directory

Microsoft is planning to make changes to LDAP security settings in Windows Server. In today’s Ask the Admin, I show you how to audit for unsigned LDAP traffic hitting Windows Server Active Directory.

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an open standard that facilitates user logon to on-premises and cloud services.

Cloud provisioning simplifies synchronizing on-premises identities to Azure AD during mergers and acquisitions.

Enable users to sign in to Azure AD using a phone number or with an alternate email address.

Microsoft is hoping to make it easier for organizations to give Azure Active Directory (AAD) joined and MDM-managed devices access to printers.

Microsoft is expanding support for passwordless logins to devices that are hybrid joined to Azure AD domains. In this article, I explain how FIDO2 security keys work in hybrid Azure AD environments.

How to configure Windows Server DNS to support identical internal and external Exchange Server HTTPS namespaces.

Last year, Microsoft announced that it would be making changes to the default LDAP channel binding and signing configuration in Active Directory in the middle of January 2020. But now these changes are being delayed until the second half of 2020 to give organizations more time to prepare.

In the second part of this two-part series, I show you how to synchronize password hashes between AAD and Domain Services, and how to join a Windows Server VM to the new domain.